Abstract
We consider wave maps from the (1 + d) -dimensional Minkowski space into the d-sphere. It is known from the work of Bizoń and Biernat (Commun Math Phys 338(3): 1443-1450, 2015) that in the energy-supercritical case, i.e., for d ≥ 3 , this model admits a closed-form corotational self-similar blowup solution. We show that this blowup profile is globally nonlinearly stable for all d ≥ 3 , thereby verifying a perturbative version of the conjecture posed in Bizoń and Biernat (Commun Math Phys 338(3): 1443-1450, 2015) about the generic large data blowup behavior for this model. To accomplish this, we develop a novel stability analysis approach based on similarity variables posed on the whole space Rd . As a result, we draw a general road map for studying spatially global stability of self-similar blowup profiles for nonlinear wave equations in the radial case for arbitrary dimension d ≥ 3 .